The upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is beginning to remake the landscape for marketing and advertising by encouraging inventive new open-source alliances. Two of them affecting this space have emerged in the last few weeks — and, although unrelated, they’re both called Open GDPR. The OpenGDPR framework was announced late last week by its […]
Here is a scene that’s all too familiar: Your Sales and Marketing organization has bought into an Account-Based Marketing (ABM) approach — adopted the mindset, organized, suited up on the tools set. You’ve embraced the principles of content nurturing in order to attract, engage and convert the decision-makers inside your key accounts. But you are
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The application of blockchain to content authentication has been gaining traction, and it may get an extra push from the zeitgeist brought about by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPR is designed to protect consumers and change the way companies approach consumer data. Though GDPR doesn’t address data about content and its provenance,
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A variety of blockchain startups, such as the Lichtenstein-based DigitalBits Project, are looking to employ the protocol’s tokens to reinvent loyalty programs. Many of the startups envision a marketplace where loyalty points become a kind of cryptocurrency, exchangeable between the loyalty programs offered by brands. In most cases, brands would have to participate in the
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6sense, which helps marketers generate and manage B2B leads and accounts, announced earlier this week it has completed the purchase of ZenIQ, which also helps marketers manage leads and accounts. The question is: What does 6sense get from the acquisition that it didn’t have already? “We were looking to complete our platform,” 6sense CEO Jason
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A senior-level executive asked me for advice the other day. For the past 15 years, he had worked for a company that sold software to publishers and loved the challenge of helping to invent a new industry. But as the market matured and his company was acquired, and then was acquired again, he realized that
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I’m going to let you in on a secret: Marketers are human, too. Don’t tell anyone I told you. Because marketers are human, we understand the richness of the customer journey, from initial inspiration or yearning to final sale. But dealing with that complexity is not always easy. As marketers, we have more ways to
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Social referral marketing platform Grabbr has launched a blockchain-based ledger to transparently track key events. Based in Franklin, Tennessee, the company offers rewards to users who share marketing content via email, social networks or SMS. Its platform was launched in January. In a typical use case, CTO Eric Ramos told me, a marketer sets up
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Oracle is boosting its marketing chops today, launching its first analytics platform and new cloud-based platforms for audience segmentation and loyalty programs. Oracle Infinity is the first web/app analytics capability for the company. It is designed to unify real-time behavioral and transactional data and allow it to be utilized in its consumer-focused marketing platform Responsys
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Sendwithus announced on Tuesday the launch of Dyspatch, an enterprise-level, cloud-based and GDPR-compliant email content management system (CMS) for transactional emails. Dyspatch is a CMS platform for email that manages workflow, including building, editing and commenting from a variety of stakeholders. When the email is ready to be deployed, it is “exposed via our API,”
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